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The History of the Future of Intelligent Machines

A Hack Education Project

Robots and the Automation of Everyday Life


For almost one hundred years, we’ve told wild stories about robots. The Robot Age has always been almost upon us, at once threatening our lives and our livelihoods and promising a world of powerful machine intelligence and cheap machine labor.

From time-to-time, I update this website with the list of the latest “robot news.” These are the stories currently in circulation about the world-to-come and the automation of everyday life.

The Week in Robots: 30 June 2018

(You can also stay up-to-date via this project's blog.)

Image credits: Bryan Mathers